Friends of the Library/Emeritus Book Group Schedule
Meeting time - second Thursday, 4:30-6:00 PM
See our Emeritus Calendar for Friends of the Library and Book Club meeting times.
We are now choosing books only a few months in advance, rather than for the whole year. Please join in the selection process by reviewing the Reading Suggestions.
2011
January 13: Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. Harper Collins (2009)
February 10: The Tenth Parallel. Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2010)
March 10: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Stories, by Yiyun Li. Random House (2010)
2010(See related pages in the sidebar at left for discussions and reviews.)
Jan. 14: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Norton, 2008
Feb. 11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. Riverhead, 2007.
Mar. 11: White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Brenda Wineapple. Random House, 2008
Apr. 8: Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War. Vintage Books, 1997
May 13: The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War On American Ideals, by Jane Mayer. Random House, 2008
June 10: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, 1993
July 8: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, 2007
August 12: American Rust, by Philipp Meyer. Speigel and Grau, 2009
Sept. 9: Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, by Walter Kirn. Doubleday 2009
Oct. 14: The White Tiger, by Aravind Adega. The Free Press, 2008
Nov. 11: The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright. Little Brown, 2009
Friends of the Library/Emeritus Book Group Schedule
Meeting time - second Thursday, 4:30-6:00 PM
See our Emeritus Calendar for Friends of the Library and Book Club meeting times.
We are now choosing books only a few months in advance, rather than for the whole year. Please join in the selection process by reviewing the Reading Suggestions.
2011
January 13: Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. Harper Collins (2009)
February 10: The Tenth Parallel. Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2010)
March 10: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Stories, by Yiyun Li. Random House (2010)
2010 (See related pages in the sidebar at left for discussions and reviews.)
Jan. 14: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Norton, 2008
Feb. 11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. Riverhead, 2007.
Mar. 11: White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Brenda Wineapple. Random House, 2008
Apr. 8: Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War. Vintage Books, 1997
May 13: The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War
On American Ideals, by Jane Mayer. Random House, 2008
June 10: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy. Vintage, 1993
July 8: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, 2007
August 12: American Rust, by Philipp Meyer. Speigel and Grau, 2009
Sept. 9: Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, by Walter Kirn. Doubleday 2009
Oct. 14: The White Tiger, by Aravind Adega. The Free Press, 2008
Nov. 11: The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright. Little Brown, 2009
December: No meeting
2009
Sept. 10: The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria. WW Norton, 2008* Discussion and video interview
Oct. 8: The Straight Man, by Richard Russo. Random/Vintage, 1998 Russo quotes, many on the proces of writing fiction
Nov. 12: Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, by Annie Proulx. Scribner, 2008 * Discussion and links to reviews
December: No Meeting